The Vietnam War cost $167 billion and Australia spent $218 million. This money could have been used to build a school, or sent abroad to a fund or it could have helped our veterans of the last war. The downsides of the war were that it left a country homeless, without shelter for people, and with infrastructure in ruins. Vietnam struggled to build this infrastructure and housing and we took it away without any consideration. But we have lost something more precious than money. Money can be replaced, which people cannot. But the troops that were sent and were massacred or disappeared in action, these men are our sons, fathers, nephews and brothers and they were taken from us to be chess pieces for the government in its game of revenge and fear of communism. While a group of anti-Vietnamese activists clearly shouted: “Children are not to be burned,” 500 people were killed in Vietnam and 3,000 injured, which is a lot. Not to mention the fact that 950,000 civilians died in the Vietnam War. Not to mention the total number of dead soldiers. However, troops and money were not a real concern of the government. The foreign policy that contains the main reason why Australia and the United States turned to